Customizable Pronouns First Look

"crocobaura;c-18039194" wrote:

"logion;c-18039188" wrote:

"StrawberryYogurt;c-18039179" wrote:
If they do announce Sims 5 I imagine this will be a feature as well. I just hope they allow traditional simmers to play the way they want to as well. I see lots of games now deleting sex/gender altogether, just assigning body types and pronouns. Thats not how I see myself, the world and thats not how I play. So i hope they can still respect traditional players perspective and keep things optional like they do at times.

I think that's why they showed their pronouns during that segment on the livestream. To be clear that they are not removing him/her.

That is questionable. They said they are not removing him/her from the pronouns list, but they also said that they are re-wording the text messages so that they can fit with the custom pronouns also. This means that they are actually removing a lot of traditional pronouns because most text won't work with custom pronouns, and this will be very visible in languages that have male and female forms for nouns, adjectives, etc. Even in English, you have words like actor and actress, host and hostess, waiter and waitress, etc. to distinguish gender, they will need to scrap such words if they want to make the pop-up messages work with custom pronouns.

I assumed from the livestream that they are going to add messages which will be displayed depending on the pronoun that you will choose. So if you have he/her the game will use the default messages. If you have something else then the game will select another message.

That's the method that makes most sense in my opinion. Because you can't have messages that works with both he/her and a customizable pronoun for many languages so the game needs to switch between different messages depending on what you selected in CAS.